Another summer without air conditioning. What’s the problem?
I thought we’d have another day or two hitting 90 F (32 C), but the forecast for the next ten days shows the highest temperature will be 86 F, so I figure it won’t hit 90 again this year.
I didn’t use air conditioning in my apartment for another summer. A few nights I woke up sweating in the middle of the night. I didn’t write the number down, but I think it happened six times, maybe five, maybe seven. Whatever the number and however annoying in the moment, I didn’t feel I suffered. I think many Americans consider sleeping in heat and humidity a fate worse than death, or nearly so, when the option to use an air conditioner exists.
They know Oscar Schindler helped Jews in Nazi Germany. Martin Luther King went to jail for freedom. Muhammad Ali’s training involved getting punched in the face. But living without air conditioning is torture for them, never mind that they hurt people who didn’t consent. They want comfort and don’t care who gets hurt for than comfort.
Meanwhile what I do is extreme. I guess they would have been loyalists during the Revolutionary War and probably would have taken no position for the Civil War.
Meanwhile, someone visited during the summer commented on how hot my apartment was. I didn’t consider it hot when he said it. I concluded that the body can adjust and I had gotten used to it. Since people have to go outside sometimes, I think my overall misery from heat and humidity was lower overall than that of people who use air conditioning whenever they feel like it. My going outside seems to have bothered me less.
It got hot, I sweat some. No problem.
Retry later